Emotion regulation skills help you understand your emotions and reduce their intensity. These skills make it easier to avoid emotional spirals and recover from mood swings more quickly.

 

Skills (Blog posts coming soon):​

• ABC: Accumulate positive emotions/experiences by actively doing things we will enjoy (eg. watch a movie, go window shopping), Build mastery in new skills (eg. playing an instrument, doing a puzzle), Cope ahead by planning for events we expect will be difficult (eg. a job interview, an upcoming social event). 

• Check the facts :This is about examining your feelings in a situation and the facts of that situation, and rationally considering whether your feeling response (and the intensity of it) is reasonable given the facts.

• Opposite action: Recognize your emotional response to a situation and the action you instinctively wish to take as a reaction to it, and instead do whatever is the opposite of that action (for instance, going out and doing something positive when you feel like staying in and dwelling on something making you sad).

• PLEASE: treat PhysicaL illness, balance Eating, avoid mood-Alerting drugs, Sleep,  Exercise

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